In my thirty-two years at the factory, we never had a loan that wasn't at least partly a trick — the company man would show you a big number on paper, but the real cost was always hidden in interest. So when my son needed fees for his engineering, I sat with the bank's 'murābaḥa' sheet and tried to trace the maths: they sold me a metal, then added a profit, then called it halal. But yaar, if the profit is fixed and tied to the market rate, isn't that just a different wrapper for the same riba? I am not convinced — I want to see the actual cost of the asset, not
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